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Fred Kent on What Makes a Great Waterfront – Radio Interview

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 1, 2007 | Add Comment

Listen to Fred Kent discuss what makes a great waterfront on San Diego’s KPBS.

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Tempe Seeks a Walkable Downtown

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 1, 2007 | Add Comment

At a public meeting in Tempe, AZ, PPS Vice President Phil Myrick recommended that the city create a network of pedestrian walkways to connect the area’s destinations.

Image (c) Andrea Bloom / The State Press

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Toward An Architecture Of Place

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 27, 2007 | Add Comment

Kathy Madden, Senior Vice President of PPS, is participating in Planetizen’s Interchange series.  Read her first entry, which looks at several major new museums in European cities that are brutal, dehumanizing buildings surounded by dead spaces.

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Ideas Flow at Session on Creating People-friendly Places in Victoria, BC

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 16, 2007 | Add Comment

Fred Kent and Kathy Madden led a group of planners, architects and community activists in Placemaking training session in developing public spaces that are appealing and safe.

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Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 12, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS facilitated the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, attended by over 130 members of the community. The project will focus on transforming Ninth Avenue from a traffic-choked, polluted highway, to a community-oriented Main Street.  Aaron Naparstek brings us his take on the meeting on Streetsblog.

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The Social Life: Join Us at the Next PPS Happy Hour, January 11th

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Everyone is invited to the next PPS Happy Hour: The Social Life.

WHEN & WHAT TIME: Thursday, January 11, 6pm

SMALL URBAN SPACE: The Edge Bar (95 E 3rd Street between 1 and 2 Avenues), New York City

SOCIABILITY: Drinks and Games–billiards and darts!

We hope to see you there!

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: PPS in Dubai

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS staff members Fred Kent, Cynthia Nikitin and Ethan Kent traveled to Dubai to train a group of the city’s leading real estate developers in Placemaking.  The largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has experienced explosive growth in recent years, emerging as the region’s financial and cultural capital. Ethan explores the transportation situation [...]

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PPS Client Wins Grand Award

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 4, 2007 | Add Comment

Congratulations to the San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our Streets, co-recipient of the 2006 Grand Award, given by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco.

The Coalition of neighborhood activists successfully transformed a dangerous 6-lane arterial into a traffic-calmed street with wide medians, safe pedestrian crossings, and bike lanes. PPS worked with the Coalition to [...]

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Making Healthier Neighborhoods in Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 28, 2006 | Add Comment

At Brooklyn Bounty’s forum “Farms, Food and Healthy Communities,” supporters of farmers’ markets in low-income neighborhoods of Brooklyn met to discuss the challenges they face in providing access to fresh, healthy foods, building relationships between farmers and consumers, and creating farmers’ markets that function as community meeting places.

The forum was part of a year-long [...]

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Lusting for Less Contested Streets

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 19, 2006 | Add Comment

After a screening of Contested Streets at a restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Jim O’Grady finds himself lusting for safe bicycle infrastructure, dedicated bus lanes, and congestion pricing. The movie highlights the success that Copenhagen, London, and Paris have seen in prioritizing pedestrians, bicycles, and public transit riders over drivers.

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Greensboro’s New Center City Park is Open!

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 4, 2006 | Add Comment

The City of Greensboro held a ribbon cutting ceremony on December 1, 2006, to celebrate the opening of the new Center City Park.

In 2003, PPS worked with the City and community members to create a vision for what this new park could be.  PPS facilitated a Placemaking workshop where participants developed a range of [...]

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Holiday Magic in Clinton Square, Syracuse

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 4, 2006 | Add Comment

Back in 1999, PPS worked in Syracuse, NY, on revitalizing Clinton Square.  The square has been open for a few years, and now hosts spectacular holiday events:

This image of Clinton Square (c) John Bery, Post-Standard  

For more images of the tree lighting ceremony in Clinton Square, visit www.syracuse.com, [...]

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